Carpet grass
കാളപ്പുല്ല്
Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 18 cm
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Also called Broadleaf carpetgrass
Formerly Anastrophus platicaulon, Anastrophus platyculmus, Axonopus arsenei, Axonopus brevipedunculatus, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from Tropical Forages, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 20 cmRead from Tropical Forages, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- pasto alfombra, pasto chato
- Chinese
- 地毯草
- Indonesian
- Jukut Pahit
- Japanese
- ツルメヒシバ
- Thai
- หญ้ามาเลย์
- Chinese (China)
- 地毯草
- root
- buskutugrasi
- Portuguese
- Grama-são-carlos, Grama-missioneira, Grama-jesuíta
- Slovak
- axonopus stlačený
- French
- Axonope comprimé
- Simplified Chinese
- 地毯草
- Malayalam
- കാളപ്പുല്ല്
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Tropical Forages, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Axonopus compressus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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